The Nation, January 4th, 1999
The life and times of African American writer and poet Margaret Walker Alexander is presented. The novelist had a fruitful, long and productive life. She is compared to some of the great American writers and contributed overwhelmingly to the community. Among her contributions was founding the Institute for the Study of the History Life and Culture of Black People at jackson State University. An appreciation of the woman and her work is presented.
Poet and novelist Margaret Walker Alexander, who died recently, at age 83, was the first black writer to win the Yale Series of Younger Poets compet...
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